Monthly Archives: March 2010

Employees of the Alliant Ammunition & Powder Company who were called back to work on their regularly scheduled days off are entitled to overtime pay under their union contract, and a Roanoke U.S. District Court affirms an arbitration award in ...

A defendant’s Rule 11 hearing demonstrates his knowing and voluntary guilty plea to an agreement that included a waiver of his right to collateral attack, and the Harrisonburg U.S. District Court denies his § 2255 motion challenging a sentencing enhancement ...

An Abingdon U.S. District Court dismisses plaintiff school administrators’ suit against defendant school board under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, which alleges that defendants violated the administrators’ constitutionally protected right to a continuing contract by notifying them at one point that ...

A Richmond U.S. District Court excludes each side’s expert witness in this dec action by a malpractice carrier who says a lawyer did not timely notify it of a possible claim arising from the lawyer’s drafting a marital settlement agreement. ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants plaintiff Citigroup’s claim for injunctive relief in this in rem action pursuant to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and orders that defendant registrants’ actions have violated the ACPA and VeriSign Inc. Is ordered to ...

A collection of empty beer bottles in the passenger compartment of defendant’s vehicle, in a parking lot off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, did not provide probable cause to allow a ranger to search defendant, who was outside the vehicle ...

A magistrate judge for the Richmond U.S. District Court says a defendant seated in the driver’s seat of his pickup truck, which was running, was in actual physical control of the vehicle and operating it as defined by 36 C.F.R. ...

Arkansas lawyer David Couch used to make a living defending nursing homes. Till he switched sides and started suing them. He was in Richmond Feb. 26 to talk to the VTLA’s Long-Term Care Litigation Section on such topics as proving ...

H. Morgan Griffith, the Republican majority leader of the House of Delegates, will challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher in November. The nine-term delegate confirmed his plans last week in a news release touting support for his candidacy from fellow ...

The Virginia State Bar Criminal Law Section has presented its 2010 Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Award to retired judge Jere M.H. “’Mac”’ Willis Jr. of Fredericksburg, who served as a judge of the 15th Circuit and on the Virginia Court ...